Puhja

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

Tradition	Estonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems	630
Verses	10,700
Distinct words	11,430
Collection years	1876–1939
Collectors	Mihkel, Pehka, Eisenschmidt
Coordinates	58.3053, 26.3291

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with the whole corpus — not the most common words.

Word	Occurrences
läits	44
näiu	47
lätsi	53
saie	33
liina	29
õbedatse	6
kae	32
usse	27
kost	29
esa	29
kolmu	12
jäie	22
kugarast	6
kasvi	25
mõtsa	25
tõse	15
latse	21
vaiva	17
sõtsi	17
laideesta	5

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 630 poems collected in this place, 569 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 61 records give no finer place, or one of a kind this list does not cover. The counts reflect how often collectors wrote an address down, not how much was sung. Names are shown as written on the records, so they span different eras’ commune divisions; a place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from, and a name marked (?) was uncertain in the record itself. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: v. = vald (commune); t. = talu (farm). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Kavilda v. (233)

Saare (21)

Järva (18)

Palupõhja (17)

Vihavu (17)

ERA II 271, 197 — Raua-Partsi t.
ERA II 271, 202 (6) — Raua-Partsi t.
ERA II 271, 209/10 (37) — Raua-Partsi t.
ERA II 78, 207/8 (1)
ERA II 78, 208 (2)
ERA II 78, 217 (17)
ERA II 78, 221 (34)
ERA II 78, 221/2 (35)
ERA II 78, 222 (36)
ERA II 78, 222 (37)
ERA II 78, 222 (38)
ERA II 78, 225 (42)
ERA II 78, 236 (1) — Põntska t.
ERA II 78, 237 (2) — Põntska t.
ERA II 78, 237 (3) — Põntska t.
ERA II 78, 237 (4) — Põntska t.
ERA II 78, 238 (5) — Põntska t.

Mõisanurme (2)

Siberinurme (2)

Võllinge (1)

ERA II 242, 123 (6) — Aruotsa t.

references naming only the commune

Suure-Konguta v. (169)

Ulila v. (77)

Kaimi (21)

EÜS V 1124/5 (10) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1218 (1) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1219 (2) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1219 (3) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1220/1 — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1221 (4) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1221/2 (5) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1222 (6) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1222 (7) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1224 (9) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1225 (11) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1226 (12) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1226/7 (13) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1227 (14) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1227/8 (15) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1228/9 (16) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1229/30 (17) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1230 (18) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1230/1 (19) — Vanasse t.
EÜS V 1231 (20) — Vanasse t.
EÜS VI 744/5 (14)

Ridaküla (12)

Kannu (8)

ERA II 78, 243/4 (1) — Lombi t.
ERA II 78, 244 (2) — Lombi t.
ERA II 78, 244/5 (3) — Lombi t.
ERA II 78, 245/6 (4) — Lombi t.
ERA II 78, 246 (5) — Lombi t.
ERA II 78, 247 (6) — Lombi t.
ERA II 78, 247 (7) — Lombi t.
ERA II 78, 247/8 (8) — Lombi t.

Nasja (3)

Härjanurme (1)

ERA II 101, 291/2 (1) — Uku t.

references naming only the commune

Suure-Ulila v. (43)

Kavlida v. (11)

Puhja (11)

Konguta v. (11)

Puhja v. (9)

Järvaküla (3)

references naming only the commune

Väike-Ulila v. (8)

Väike-Konguta v. (3)

Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 10 records)

Pori (8)

Kavilda (1)

AES, MT 6, 8 (7)

Vihvavu (1)

ERA II 78, 223 (39)

Tani t. (3)

Poems with no finer place recorded (61)

Sample verses with parallels in other places

Verses recorded here whose close parallels appear in poems from other collection places — a trace of the shared oral tradition.

üle mere minnä tulla (AES, MT 34, 8) — parallel in Setumaa
ei ole riiga eiga liina (AES, MT 34, 4) — parallel in Setumaa
kullerkupu kulmu päälla (AES, MT 34, 1/3) — parallel in Paistu
suu man mul surma aisu (AES, MT 34, 1/3) — parallel in Paistu
astu üles akna pääle (H I 2, 514 (6)) — parallel in Tarvastu
sis mina petas pillihääle (H IV 3, 839 (19)) — parallel in Tarvastu
suu manta surma aisu (AES, MT 34, 1/3) — parallel in Halliste
vihu manta maa aisu (AES, MT 34, 1/3) — parallel in Halliste
kos vanamiis jäi (ERA II 85, 261/2 (41)) — parallel in Helme
tare taka tamme otsan (H III 10, 26 (5)) — parallel in Helme